Beyond the Sunset

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Beyond the Sunset

• Where are the dead (part 2)?

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Where are the dead?
But man dies and is laid away Indeed he
breathes his last and where is he? Job 1410
(NKJV)
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Agenda

• Old Testament view of hell
• Does sheol hades?
• New Testament view of hell
• Points to ponder

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Old Testament view of hell

• DISCUSSION What do you think sheol means?
• "the world of the dead Strong's Hebrew and
  Chaldee Dictionary
• "the unseen state Young's Analytical
  Concordance
• always the abode of departed spirits" Smith's
  Bible Dictionary

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Old Testament view of hell
KJV NKJV NIV NAS/RSV
Hell 31 19 0 0
grave 30 25 56 0
pit 3 2 0 0
realm of death below 0 0 1 0
death 0 0 6 0
depths 0 0 1 0
sheol 0 18 0 64
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Does sheol hades?

• Souls are conscious
• Isaiah 149-20
• Place for the wicked
• Job 2113Numbers 1630-33
• Place for the righteous
• Job 1413-14 Psalms 4914-15
• What about torment and paradise?
• Abaddon (Job 266 2822 3112 Proverbs 1511
  2720)

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New Testament view of hell

• Hades
• Acts 229-35
• Luke 1619-31
• Place of torment
• Place of rest paradise
• Luke 2343 John 2017

DISCUSSION Does it matter if Luke 1619-31 is a
parable?
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Points to ponder

• Old and New Testament people understood the
  meaning for sheol, hades, gehanna, and tartaros
• What if our view of the afterlife is incorrect?
• What is the benefit of studying this topic?
• 1 Thessalonians 418